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Originally Posted by irishhorse
Seen this today, what's the forums opinion on this one ? I've not seen another two piece badge too compare it with !
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IH
I am becoming more and more convinced that this two piece badge is actually the 1927 design for Sgt Pipers and Pipers and that the image in the regiment magazine is incorrectly dated.
The two piece badge is seen in wear in a photo from the Rgt museum (dated Aldershot 1934) below. I post it here as the gallery links on the museum page appear to be dead.
The two piece design is also in keeping with the intent of the 1927 WM design (actually rendered in two pieces for officers but unintentionally in one piece for Other Ranks)
Photographs (such as the well known Dancers of the 2nd battalion, Catterick June 1939, Imperial War Museum) and the 1944 dated image here
THE BRITISH ARMY IN ITALY 1944. © IWM (NA 13057)IWM Non Commercial License
appear to show that it was replaced by the large one piece WM badge that I previously thought had been the 1927 badge.
So the sequence that I have for the pipers badges from 1900 is
1) Special badge 4 Battalion (Bn) (from 1908 3rd Bn) c. 1885-c. 1920
2) First official pattern, Sealed Pattern Number (SPN) 3587/1921 (The regular forage cap badge with pins)
3) Unofficial castle pattern, see illustration of PM Fisher in R.G. Harris’ book “The Irish Regiments A pictorial record”
4) SPN 10173/1927 which I think is the two piece design
5) The large WM Castle (regimental supply no SPN) c. 1939 - c. early 1950's
6) Smaller Silver plated castle, (regimental supply no SPN) c. early 1950's - c. early 1960's
7) The N. Irish Brigade large pipers badge (regimental supply no SPN), c. early 1960's
John